Police fatally shot a person following a SWAT team standoff at the Turtle Creek Apartments in the 8200 block of Harcourt Road on Jan. 21, 2014, in Indianapolis.(Photo: Matt Detrich / IndyStar)Buy Photo

An Indianapolis police SWAT team member is on desk duty while simultaneous investigations are being conducted into a fatal shooting on the Far Northside on Monday.

The officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at police during a standoff in an apartment at 8200 Harcourt Road, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer Christopher Wilburn said.

IMPD internal affairs officers, professional standard investigators and homicide detectives are conducting standard investigations, as they do after each fatal police shooting, Wilburn said.

The officer, whom police did not identify, is on administrative leave. The identity of the victim was not released.

The shooting occurred in a narrow hallway in the apartment building where SWAT officers had been negotiating with the man for an hour. The man was not holding a hostage, and police were speaking with him through the open apartment door.

The man stepped into the hallway several times before the shooting, and police at least once tried to bring him down by firing bean bags at him.

"We have several non-lethal weapons at our disposal that we can use in these situations," Wilburn said.

The SWAT team felt they had been building a rapport with the man and making progress for his surrender, Wilburn said.

But then the man stepped out with a handgun at 11 a.m., pointed it in the direction of the officers, ignoring repeated orders to drop the weapon, Wilburn said. He did not know how many shots the officer fired, but he said there was no indication that the victim fired his gun.

The incident started after paramedics responding to a call of a person having trouble breathing, noticed a firearm in the apartment and left the building, police said.

An officer who had accompanied the medics approached the apartment and talked to the man through the door. The officer called for backup when the man exhibited "strange" behavior, police said.